Serbian: Translation & specialist interpreting

Serbian belongs to the Indo-European language family and is part of the South Slavic subgroup.

Serbian is the official language in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Serbian is considered a minority language in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro and Romania. There are also large Serbian-speaking communities in many countries around the world. Approximately nine]nbsp]million people in Eastern Europe are native speakers of this language.

Smooth communication is a top priority, especially when dealing with authorities or other important appointments, and this depends to a large extent on the interpreter. In order to avoid unnecessary problems and misunderstandings, we at AP Fachübersetzungen, the renowned Nuremberg interpreting and translation agency, work exclusively with competent Serbian translators and interpreters who have many years of experience and impeccable references. Our strict quality management sets high standards and guarantees the impeccable quality of our services. At AP Fachübersetzungen, your translation and interpreting projects are always in best hands. Whether you need a consecutive, simultaneous, liaison, telephone, conference, trade fair, GMP audit or court interpreter or a specialist translator for Serbian - you can always rely on our translation agency.

Old Church Slavic was the language in which religious texts were written and out of which the Slavic languages developed, including Serbian. The Serbo-Croatian variant of Old Church Slavic developed between the 12^th and 16^th century. Since the 13^th century, secular texts in Serbo-Croatian have been circulated, and since the 14^th century, both religious and secular texts have been written in the national language Serbian. The first Serbian dictionary (Bosnian-Turkish dictionary), which was published in 1631, was also one of the first Slavic dictionaries ever.

The language history of the 19^th century is characterized by attempts to standardize language. Both the Latin and the Cyrillic spelling of Serbian were standardized and adapted to the Serbian pronunciation. In the dual monarchy Austria-Hungary, the language spoken in the countries Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was called Bosnian and regarded as a language. At the beginning of the 20^th century, the name was changed to Serbo-Croatian. There were many discussions about both the name and the writing system as well as the use of the language and its variations in the politically unstable 20^th century. Laws and resolutions concerning these matters were passed and then abandoned.

The Serbian language uses both the Latin and the Cyrillic alphabet. Officially, the Cyrillic spelling is used, but in everyday life and in the media, the Latin spelling is also often used. In Cyrillic letters, the Serbian alphabet comprises 30 letters.

Serbian is an inflecting language, in which nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs are inflected. German has four different cases, and Serbian even has seven cases, to which the gender and the number of nouns have to be adapted. Verbs in the Serbian language are inflected according to tense, number and mood. Moreover, there are two different aspects depending on whether an action or an event is completed or uncompleted. This category does not exist in the German language.

In addition, Serbian has many more tenses than German, at least on paper. Strictly speaking, there are eight different tenses in the Serbian language, some of which, however, are practically not used in everyday life. Due to the multitude of inflections, the word order in Serbian is very free.

Unlike in German and English, there are no articles in Serbian.

Serbian is a tonal language, which means that differences in the stress of a word can also change its meaning.

Due to all these particularities of the Serbian language, it is advisable to entrust the Serbian translation of your specialist texts or interpretation to a native speaker or very experienced language expert. Therefore, at AP Fachübersetzungen we work exclusively with certified and experienced specialist Serbian translators and interpreters and can thus guarantee the high quality and accuracy of your Serbian translation.